Health Professions staff
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Gillian Rudd
Senior Lecturer and Course Lead (MSc Speech and Language Therapy)
Gillian has extensive experience of supporting children and young people with a wide range of communication needs and additional expertise in supporting children and adults who stammer and/or clutter. She promotes a person-centred, solution-focused approach in both her teaching and practice. Gillian is actively engaged with...
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Michelle Ryland
Senior Lecturer in Radiotherapy
Michelle qualified from the University of Liverpool and Northern Centre for Cancer Treatment (Newcastle) in 1999 with a BSc (Hons) in Radiotherapy and started work as a therapeutic radiographer at UHCW. She then moved to London in 2001 and worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital, in Chelsea, as Senior 2/Band 6 clinical...
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Ayazullah Safi
Senior Lecturer and Public Health Research Cluster Lead
Dr Ayazullah Safi is a Senior Lecturer and Public Health Research Cluster Lead at Birmingham City University. His interdisciplinary research spans public health, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, behaviour change, health promotion and health inequalities. His research focuses particularly on developing and evaluating...
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Dr Bismillah Sehar
Lecturer in Public Health
Sehar has a background in medicine and has been working with academics and in research for the last 10 years. She has diverse experience of teaching, ranging from medical universities to students of widening participation. Sehar is completing her PhD in Public Health, focusing on health inequalities within the health sector of...
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Sharvila Shah
Lecturer
Sharvila is a Lecturer in Operating Department Practice at Birmingham City University. She contributes to undergraduate teaching across the programme and provides module leadership, supporting students to develop the professional knowledge, skills, and behaviours required for contemporary perioperative practice. Sharvila is an...
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Emily Sharp
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Emily completed a Speech and Language Therapy degree at Birmingham City University in 2014. She has now gained a place on the University’s Graduate Teaching Assistant scheme which involves undertaking a PhD and teaching undergraduate students. Emily’s PhD is looking at the risk factors associated with voice problems in teachers...
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Emma Sherlock
Teaching Fellow
Emma is a Teaching Fellow in Diagnostic Radiography at Birmingham City University, with a background in paediatric MRI, cross-sectional imaging and research. She brings experience from both clinical practice and Siemens Healthineers to help students connect theory with clinical practice. Passionate about MRI and supporting the...
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Danny Simeone
Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography
Danny qualified as a Diagnostic Radiographer at Birmingham City University in 2014. Before joining BCU, he had worked at an NHS major trauma centre in Coventry. Danny has always taken a keen interest in student development and experience during his time in the NHS, taking a lead role with student education within his...
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Gemma Smith
Course Lead and Senior Lecturer Medical Ultrasound
Gemma previously worked as a Radiographer and Sonographer at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust before joining the BCU lecturing team. She took on the role of Course Leader in 2021. Gemma specialises in the teaching of Obstetric, Gynaecological, and Abdominal Ultrasound. She is passionate about supporting and...
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Paula Smith
Senior Lecturer and Joint Programme Leader, Master of Public Health (MPH)
Paula Smith brings a wide range of experience, knowledge and skills to her post including: Practitioner roles - Public Health/Health Promotion practice leading on the implementation of the Dudley Health Inequalities Strategy (for Dudley Community Partnership – job-share); Senior Health Promotion Officer (Community...